Here's an interesting fact about women — none of our bodily fluids have ever resembled Windex. Not our periods, not our pee, not our amniotic fluid, not our saliva, none of it. It seemed for a moment there that this information had begun to take root into the public consciousness. But while a new study on female sexuality has brought new insights into a unique orgasmic phenomenon, it has also brought back a reminder of a familiar trope from the maxi pads ads of your youth — blue lady liquid.
A 2022 report out of Japan and published in the International Journal of Urology on the "Enhanced visualization of female squirting" sought to answer elusive question surrounding the phenomenon — what exactly people who squirt are squirting. In order to identify the source of the fluid, "A urethral catheter was inserted before sexual stimulation and the bladder was emptied. Then, a mixture of indigo carmine (10 ml) and saline (40 ml) was injected into the bladder." When the subjects were then sexually stimulated to the point of squirting, they squirted blue, confirming that most, if not all, of their fluid was urine. "This is the first report," the authors wrote, "in which visualization of squirting was enhanced."
